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A Direct, Early Stage Guanidinylation Protocol for the Synthesis of Complex Aminoguanidine-containing Natural Products
Published on: September 9, 2016
Synthesis and structure of two new (guanidinate)boron dichlorides and their attempted conversion to boron(I)
Michael Findlater1, Nicholas J Hill, Alan H Cowley
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A5300, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Abstract:
To test the feasibility of the guanidinate architecture for the support of boron(i) carbene analogues the energy gap between the singlet and triplet states of the model compound, [Me(2)NC{N(Ph)}(2)B:] (), has been probed by both DFT and second order Møller-Plesset (MP2) methods. The singlet state is calculated to be more stable than the triplet state by between 6.0 and 10.1 kcal mol(-1). The new (guanidinate)boron dichlorides [Ph(2)NC{N(Mes)(2)]BCl(2) () and [Ph(2)NC{N(Dipp)(2)]BCl(2) () have been prepared and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Attempts to reduce and to the corresponding boron(i) species were not successful.
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Structural Isomerism
Isomers are different chemical species that have the same chemical formula. Structural isomerism of coordination compounds can be divided into two subcategories, the linkage isomers and coordination-sphere isomers.
Linkage isomers occur when the coordination compound contains a ligand that can bind to the transition metal center through two different atoms. For example, the CN− ligand can bind through the carbon atom or through the nitrogen atom. Similarly, SCN− can be...

